The magazine MAQ September 2018 The magazine MAQ September 2018 | Page 195

Zizzi says that Physics, like all empirical sciences, proceeds by induction from facts (data) to laws and theories, by means of patterns-recognition, brainstorming, creative guessing, and insights. And then, physics goes back from theories and laws to data by deduction, and at the end must agree with experiment.

On the other hand, mathematics is a process of pure deductive logic, but does not have to agree with experiment.

Poetry is only inductive. The Truth-Observable is an example of this “poetical entanglement” between logic and physics.